NAWABSHAH Nov 3: Dog-bite cases are on the rise here as in last 48 hours at least 25 cases have been reported in the district, out of which one of the patients has died while 24 others have been admitted to hospital.

According to Dr Yaar Mohammad Unnar of Peoples Medical College Hospital treatment of the these patients was going on satisfactorily.

The dead has been identified only as wife of Punhal Jamali, resident of 60 Miles.

Medical Superintendent of the PMCH, Dr Ali Nawaz Khoso told this correspondent that the hospital was short of anti- rabies injections but they arranged some for those who could not afford it.

Stray dogs are now becoming very dangerous for the people of Nawabshah and the administration has seemingly failed to control the situation.

RESCUE CENTRE: DIG police Sukkur range inaugurated Rescue Centre Nawabshah on Saturday.

Speaking on the occasion, DIG Mushtaq Mohammed Shah said that Nawabshah had also been provided with the latest equipment like other parts of the country and in future the police record would be computerized which would include the record of criminals.

The rescue centre has been provided with four motorcycles and 24 police commandos who would be alert to help citizens round the clock.

The police officials of the centre can be contacted on telephone No. 15.

The design of the centre building is a replica of the tomb of Quaid-i-Azam.

TALUKA NAZIM: Pure and clean drinking water was being supplied to the citizens of Nawabshah City.

This was claimed by Ali Akbar Jamali, taluka Nazim, Nawabshah, here on Saturday.

Measures were also being taken to provide maximum facilities to the citizens, he added. He said that water in Gujrawah was being purified by mixing bleaching powder and alum in it and measures were being taken to provide maximum facilities to the citizens.

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